With a constant eye for what’s next in fashion and culture, UNKNWN is creating a new masculine fashion experience, rooted in the modern convergence of sport, fashion, technology, street, music and access for all.

UNKNWN offers an authentic curated assortment of covetable sneakers, modern streetwear and designer apparel. This commitment to exceed our customers’ expectations has led us to expand our reach throughout the US and Canada. Our commitment to our customers to provide new, genuine fashion remains constant.

This is a huge issue for many of us on many levels. Aside from patriotic considerations here are my thoughts on this.

We sell heat presses so that our customers can have the full package from us. Frankly we make our money on selling heat transfers so in our minds we want to sell a heat press that will work properly, and not cause us any problems. There are many great heat presses made domestically.

We chose to stick with Hix because they have been around the longest, and they make a very reliable machine.

When we look at problems from heat presses they are almost always from off brands and unfortunately many are from China.

We have purchased and looked at machines from China, Italy and other places . The simple truth is that if you buy a cheap press, you are getting a …. cheap heat press. There may be pressure issues, uneven heat distribution. THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR T SHIRT PRINT BUSINESS IS YOUR HEAT PRESS.

We will continue to explore other heat presses but until we see one that is up to our standards we will not carry any from overseas.

In the mean time we continue to make our transfers easy to print with a wide room for heat and pressure to accommodate our customers .

Also please check out our new Deco trans designer. It is a work in process with more art to be loaded but so far the response has been terrific. We are using a proprietary paper that makes great , high quality, quick digit prints. We are also making stickers and posters.

So far this has been a ” banner year” , sorry for the pun . Thanks for your support.

I have been wanting to do this for quite some time. I love to write and I love to talk to customers or potential customers. This is a crazy, fun business that we are in. As I have said often We are not curing cancer.

The heat transfer business is constantly changing and I have practically seen it all. My Dad was in this business way back in the 1970s and was a pioneer in heat transfers. That is how and why I ended up in Columbus Ohio. I went to Ohio State became a life long Buckeye fan. One of my sons ( I have 5 kids) even was a band member ( The best damn band in the land OSU marching band).

I have been in Columbus Ohio now for many years even though we don’t have mountains, an ocean it is a very cool, dynamic , growing city and I love it.

Now on to business. Let me tell you my background. I have been a stand up comedian, door to door sales person, talk show host ,writer, and a businessman.

I have been lucky enough in my life to have met very interesting people from Alexander Haig , Jay Leno, to most of todays celebrities. It is just part of our business. I am not jaded , I am a fan and I still look in awe at people who have accomplished much and are in the public eye.

I love to create products, market , promote . It is kind of like the feeling before a big game the excitement, the thrill , the letdown and the exhilaration of having a successful product . I have had both believe me. If I have had any success in my life it is because I have I have not been afraid to fail. Yup I have failed alot but failure leads to successes and as long as we learn from our mistakes ( you have to be bold enough to make them) we will grow and learn and prosper.

This blog is here for many reasons. I want to help those who are starting out, in our business. I completely understand the small business mentality . I have been there and I have done that. I love to share ideas and hopefully help friends and customers prosper in the heat applied transfer business.

Oh, and I want you to use our products. That is the purpose of this. At least for now we are a capitalist Country and we all want to make money. Ok, I slipped ( lets not get political ) so we won’t go there in this blog .

Please ask any question that you need to ask. If it is technical I will get my “experts” at Artbrands to help . If it is about licensing, copyrignt and trademark I have a vast knowledge of it. I also am smart enough to admit when I don’t know something ( which is often ) .

Thanks for reading this and lets have fun and make money.

Sincerely

Larry Levine Artbrands

President

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Me sitting on the King of Thrones chair at the licensing show. ( not very comfortable ) all that fighting for this chair ?